Incorrect Privilege Assignment Affecting github.com/hashicorp/nomad/nomad/structs package, versions >=1.4.0 <1.9.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMHASHICORPNOMADNOMADSTRUCTS-8545665
  • published20 Dec 2024
  • disclosed20 Dec 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-12678  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-266  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/nomad/nomad/structs to version 1.9.4 or higher.

Overview

github.com/hashicorp/nomad/nomad/structs is a simple and flexible workload orchestrator to deploy and manage containers (docker, podman), non-containerized applications (executable, Java), and virtual machines (qemu) across on-prem and clouds at scale.

Nomad is supported on Linux, Windows, and macOS. A commercial version of Nomad, Nomad Enterprise, is also available

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Privilege Assignment through unredacted workload identity tokens. An attacker can escalate privileges within a namespace.

CVSS Scores

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